Don’t believe anyone who tells you learning to code is easy
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Techcrunch[^]:
One of the most dangerous things I’ve seen happen to people who are just starting to code is being told that it’s easy.
But...I just bought a book that says I can learn in 21 days
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Techcrunch[^]:
One of the most dangerous things I’ve seen happen to people who are just starting to code is being told that it’s easy.
But...I just bought a book that says I can learn in 21 days
Kent Sharkey wrote:
I can learn in 21 days
Of course, 21 day in each month in the next 12 years...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Kent Sharkey wrote:
I can learn in 21 days
Of course, 21 day in each month in the next 12 years...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
Yup, that is definitely closer to the real number.
TTFN - Kent
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Techcrunch[^]:
One of the most dangerous things I’ve seen happen to people who are just starting to code is being told that it’s easy.
But...I just bought a book that says I can learn in 21 days
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Techcrunch[^]:
One of the most dangerous things I’ve seen happen to people who are just starting to code is being told that it’s easy.
But...I just bought a book that says I can learn in 21 days
Kent Sharkey wrote:
I just bought a book that says I can learn in 21 days
I gave up when I read this essay by Peter Norvig: Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years[^]. From the text: "Researchers (Bloom (1985), Bryan & Harter (1899), Hayes (1989), Simmon & Chase (1973)) have shown it takes about ten years to develop expertise in any of a wide variety of areas, including chess playing, music composition, telegraph operation, painting, piano playing, swimming, tennis, and research in neuropsychology and topology. The key is deliberative practice: not just doing it again and again, but challenging yourself with a task that is just beyond your current ability, trying it, analyzing your performance while and after doing it, and correcting any mistakes. Then repeat. And repeat again. There appear to be no real shortcuts: even Mozart, who was a musical prodigy at age 4, took 13 more years before he began to produce world-class music. In another genre, the Beatles seemed to burst onto the scene with a string of #1 hits and an appearance on the Ed Sullivan show in 1964. But they had been playing small clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg since 1957, and while they had mass appeal early on, their first great critical success, Sgt. Peppers, was released in 1967."
